Bartholomäus Bruyn the Elder

Pierre Vischer-Passavant (1779-1851), near Basel, Switzerland;

Frédéric Engel-Gros (1843-1918), Basel and Château de Ripaille, Haute Savoie, France;

His estate sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 30 May - 1 June 1921, lot 19 (as School of Hans Holbein);

Where acquired by "Schutz" for 6,200 francs;

Dr. Theodor Engelmann (1851-1931), Basel;

With J. Kugel, Paris;

From whom acquired by Otto Naumann, New York, 1996;

His sale ("The Otto Naumann Ltd. Gallery Sale"), New York, Sotheby's, 25 January 2007, lot 56;

Where acquired by Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders III.

Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Elegance and Wonder: Masterpieces of European Art from the Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders III Collection, 20 March 2023 - 30 January 2025, no. 1.

P. Ganz, L'oeuvre d'un amateur d'art, la collection de Monsieur F. Engel-Gros: Catalogue raisonné, Geneva/Paris 1925, vol. I, p. 139, cat. no. 33 (as School of Hans Holbein the Younger);

H. Westhoff-Krummacher, Barthel Bruyn der Ältere als Bildnismaler, Munich 1965, pp. 114, 184, cat. no. 115;

M.R. Harrington, in With Observation and Imagination: Still Lifes, Genre Scenes, Portraits, and Landscapes from the Saunders Collection, exhibition catalogue, A.K. Wheelock Jr. (ed.), New York 2021, pp. 20-22, 164, cat. no. 1, reproduced.